Tag.



No. 652,499. Patented June 26, I900. J. ZEEB.

TAG.

(Application filed Mar. 29, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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TAG

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters latent No. 652,499, dated June 26,1900.

Application filed March 29, 1900. Serial No. 10,695. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB ZEEB, a citizen of the United States, residingat Edgerton, in the county of Williams and State of Ohio, have inventeda new and useful Tag, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tags, and particularly to means for holding amarking or identifying card or analogous device; and the object of thesame is to provide simple and effective means for positively inclosing acard or other device which is strong and durable and capable of repeateduse and also serves to prevent the card inclosed thereby from becomingbroken or torn and permits the use of a material to receive the taginscriptions of inferior quality, whereby the cost of tags is materiallyreduced and the convenience atforded of substitution or replacement.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the parts,which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a tag embodying thefeatures of the invention. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal verticalsection of the same. Fig. 3 is aplan view of the blank from which theholdingbody of the tag is formed.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate correspondingparts in the several views. r

The numeral 1 designates a body for holding a paper, celluloid, or othercard for receiving the usual tag inscriptions, such as the name ofsender and address, the name of the consignee and address, and any othermatter desired. The said card 2 is shown in the body in Figs. 1 and 2,and by reference to Fig. 3 it will be seen that said body is formed froma blank comprising a pair of leaves 3 and 4, each having a rectangularcontour and provided with a rectangular opening 5 and in termediatelyconnected bya bendable hingesection 6. The opposite sides of the leaveshave bendable flanges 7, which are directed inwardly toward each other,as shown by Fig. 1, to form side closures, and thereby cause the body tohave a box-like construction. The free end of the leaf 3 has anoutwardly extending ear 8, with a tongue 9 cut from the inner portionthereof, and the outer extremity of the leaf 4 is provided with asimilarlyshaped car 10, with a slot cut in the inner portion thereof, asat 11. When the two leaves are folded together, as shown by Figs. 1 and2, the flanges 7 contact and close the opposite sides, and the ears 8and 10 are drawn together to permit the tongue 9 to be bent through theslot 11, and thus firmly hold the two leaves in closed relation, but insuch manner that the card inclosed by the body provided by the leavesmay be removed at any time and replaced by another by simply releasingthe tongue from the slot 11 and afterward reattaching the same. When thetongue 9 is in locked position, (shown by Fig. 2,) a sufficiently-largeopening is left in each of the ears 8 and 10 through which to thread astring or Wire for attaching the entire device to thecontaining-receptacle it is intended to identify during shipment ortransportation from one place to another.

The improved tag is intended for general use, but has been particularlydevised for application to market-baskets, oil-cans, and the like, andthe card within the same for this use will preferably be formed ofcelluloid and contain or have on one side the name of the dealer and onthe reverse side the name of the owner or purchaser of the goods, bothsides of the card being clearly shown through the rectangular openings 5in the leaves. By this means a strong and durable tag for thisparticular purpose is provided, and the inconvenience of the ordinarypaper tag arising from crumpling of the same is entirely avoided.

It is proposed to form the blanks, as shown by Fig. 3, by stamping themout of suitable sheet metal and at a small cost price, and to suitdifferent uses changes in the form, proportions, size, and minor detailsmay be re sorted to Without departing from. theprinch ple of theinvention. V

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is-- A taghaving leaves with rectangular openin gs therein and intermediatelyconnected by an integral bendable hinge-section, the leaves havingopposite side flanges bent in planes at right angles and having theiredges coinciding In testimony that I claim the foregoing as to provideside closures, the free endsof the my own I have hereto afiixed mysignature in leaves also having ears centrally extending the presence oftwo witnesses;

therefrom, one ear being formed with a slot J AUOB ZEEB. 5 to receive abendable tongue out in the op Witnesses:

posite ear, and a card removably inclosed by OSCAR M. BAKER,

the connected leaves. A. STRAUSBORGER.

